Culture
‘Yellowstone’: Low Noon, or How the Western was Lost
February 15, 2022The writers shifted focus to an idealized cowboy lifestyle which Sheridan located in Texas—where a man could still be “free.”
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For African-American History Month: Three vocal CDs in review
February 14, 2022It seems like a very apt project for interfaith and interracial collaboration.
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Melancholy Danes: A Scandinavian ‘Sunset Boulevard’ in Bille August’s ‘The Pact’
February 11, 2022The 73-year-old Danish helmer’s almost two-hour The Pact is a thought-provoking, moody movie.
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“Yes I said yes”: James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100
February 9, 2022Onward to Ulysses’ second century!
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‘Border Crossings’: Thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to Portuguese freedom
February 4, 2022These thirteen stories about covert journeys in service to world socialism reveal the risks and rewards of “underground work,” a branch of Party activity that, as the author reminds us, was fundamental to the 20th-century liberation...
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